From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for supporting Asheville Free Media and community radio! In the next couple of days we will be contacting you individually regarding your chosen rewards for your contribution to our Kickstarter campaign.

In the days, weeks, and months ahead we are going to be forging ahead in our pursuit of a low-power FM signal, studio upgrades, website upgrades, and more original programming, and we'd love for you to be a part of it all. If you are in the Asheville area... join us! Send an email to volunteer@ashevillefm.org to get connected or even better, stop by our monthly station meeting on April 28th, noon, at the DeSoto Lounge in West Asheville.

Asheville's Big Love Fest -- a celebration of local and independent businesses, restaurants, breweries, artists, and non-profits -- happens Sunday, May 6th from 1 to 8 pm in Pack Square Park. Asheville FM will have its own stage with great music from local bands and groovin' tunes spun by our DJs. So far the band line up includes:

Tonight Asheville Free Media will be broadcasting live from the {Re}Happening at Lake Eden! We'll be spinning new music from the the Asheville FM music library, and simulcasting the performances happening in the Dining Hall. Look for a special link on the Asheville FM homepage around 6:00 pm or so EDT - http://www.ashevillefm.org.

MAIN STAGE SCHEDULE: DURING DINNER: 6:30pm to 8:30pm

Various announcements and words from the BMCM & MAP boards about the event & their organizations

"In Endangered Blood, from New York, two horn players are out front:
Chris Speed on tenor saxophone and clarinet, Oscar Noriega on alto
saxophone and bass clarinet. They play fast, looping, dynamically even
and entwining lines, laying bebop over clanky grooves. (On Wednesday
they ran through a version of Thelonious Monk’s “Epistrophy” and their
own “Uri Bird,” a piece incorporating some Tristano-like melodies, both
from a new, self-titled album, on Skirl Records.)

But the action lay at the back of the stage. There was the drummer Jim
Black, whose abrupt rhythms and dry cymbals holler 1998, and the
extraordinary bassist Trevor Dunn.
Mr. Dunn is the group’s anomaly. He’s about the same age as the rest of
the band — early 40s — but arrived in New York later, after playing in
the West Coast experimental rock bands Mr. Bungle and Fantomas. As the
rest of the band felt light and volatile, playing hide-and-seek with
harmony and rhythm, Mr. Dunn’s bass sound remained broad and deep and
strong. He gave it sense and purpose. You were wondering where a rock
aesthetic has improved jazz rather than compromising it? Here."

Show time is slated for 9 pm. Visit the Asheville Free Media home page at http://www.ashevillefm.org -around that time and click the special link for the simulcast.